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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1921
Page
8
The article outlines the Red Cross duties for veterans and reports annual accomplishments. It notes 70 782 allotment and allowance claims and 63 655 allotment checks delivered to veterans, a $10 000 medical assistance fund, and 32 495 loans totaling $450 000 for vocational training with 85 percent repayment.
The American Red Cross cites ten million dollars yearly for veteran relief through 2,397 Chapters, with last year’s Roll Call receipts about six million. National HQ spent over two million. Chapters contributed about seven million. By June 1921, 20,300 disabled veterans used government facilities, with 1,000 more joining monthly. The Red Cross Chapter assists claims, finances urgent needs, and informs families to ease recovery.
Training for blind ex-service men at the Red Cross Institute in Maryland during 1920-21 fitted 147 men for life. Nineteen moved to other institutions for advanced education, twelve secured occupations, fourteen withdrew for health, fourteen more pursued on the job training, and eighty seven remained in training.
The American Red Cross in Europe outlines a six million dollar year plan to provide medical care and clothing for thousands of children in Central and Eastern Europe. The program, chaired by Herbert Hoover through the European Relief Council, funds child welfare stations and essential medical services to restore children to healthy life amid private philanthropy.
Immigrants at Ellis Island faced a comic uproar when Commissioner Walls served ice cream to 1700 diners. A Balkan native and an East Indian sparked a goofy smear fight as others mimicked the cold trick, creating a chaotic scene of splashed faces and laughter.
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